You would first have to believe that better tasting vegetables was a possibility before you start looking for it.
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Acters@lemmy.world 5 days agoWhat’s even more silly about this is that you never bothered to cook it yourself to experience better cooked food and the reason is? Idk for me it was because I am lame and too shy to ask to change the established way of life. On the other hand I have adjusted to eat food of all sorts even though it is displeasing. Except foods that have capsaicin or or peppers, I’m allergic to them.
howrar@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 4 days ago
This. I didn’t know steak was good until I spent a few months living with my uncle, because growing up, if my mom made steak, it was like burnt shoe leather. Why would I ever think to order it at a restaurant?
Acters@lemmy.world 4 days ago
idk, am I privileged to have a family who cared enough to go to eat out once in while like once a month ?
I fail to see how you can think I am trying to relate to someone who never had decent vegetables. It’s not like it is impossible for many of us to eat decent vegetables at one point. I clearly am not trying to be relating to everyone’s background. You are simply nitpicking and didn’t bother reading or understanding my comment.
howrar@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Who said anything about relating to others? You criticized a kid for doing what any reasonable kid would do. That’s the part I’m responding to.
Acters@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Fr I don’t think you want to think about it much past the surface level. I agree to some points but not the myth that kids all kids can’t taste good vegetables at all. Conversation ran it’s course, I don’t mind. It is what it is. I believe differently.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Do you want to talk about it?
Acters@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I kept it short cause I didn’t think there much else to talk about. I expressed my opinion, big no-no on the internet but whatever
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Things were much different before the internet. “Food porn” wasn’t really a thing (unless maybe you sought it out in cookbooks, and even then…). Hell, Food Network didn’t exist until the mid-90s, and back then it was a third-rate cable channel that nobody watched.
If you’re a child in that world, how would you even know that vegetables could be good?
Acters@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And yet I still believe there were kids who had good tasting vegetables. I already agreed that some didn’t but the ones who did? It was still common for kids to not step up and learn. Oh well, how about I just accept whatever you say but not actually believe your narrow view of life?
match@pawb.social 5 days ago
because fresh vegetables are expensive and have short shelf lives
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Which is funny because these days I just buy frozen vegetables and make food with those, and I still enjoy it far more than my parent’s cooking
It really isn’t even about fresh vegetables
CandleTiger@programming.dev 4 days ago
Refrigerated fresh vegetables are much better than canned. Somewhere in between the '50s and today refrigerated got common and cheap and there was no excuse anymore for buying that soggy canned shit. I would’ve said the '90s were well after that point though. Anybody using canned green beans as a side in the '90s was just coasting on momentum and bad choices I think.
(There’s reasons to use canned – they make a good soup ingredient if you’re going to boil it to death anyhow, and they store better in your disaster prep bunker. But as a simple side for dinner, not a good choice.)
Acters@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is so true. I find there are plenty of ways to enjoy vegetables on the cheap or lower the effects of rot on foods. I feel like people don’t realize that 2000s is the year that current adults as kids grew up in. It is so much better back than after 2008 and 2020(current generation) are having to deal with but still it was a solved problem.
Yet people don’t really see what was talking about. I wasn’t alluding to the vegetables, but rather how kids are not willing enough to learn to cook or take initiative when they don’t enjoy something.
It isn’t easy to cook but I still helped my little brother. I wish when I was a kid, I learned to cook. My mom made the best foods though, and I lived pretty much happy with vegetables. I love salads. It is sad how many are not liking salads or vegetables as much.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Am I crazy because I liked canned green beans as a salad (like, standard oil, vinegar, salt, pepper) when I was a kid? Mum still makes that and I still like it.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Not in 1987 Minnesota you’re not
Acters@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t know where this came from. I am talking about how as kids we grow up too shy to pickup cooking as a skill, even though we find it not taste right for us. It is fine to accept the food cause hard work and all that about love, but if you feel like it’s not good enough, we don’t seem to try. But you know I don’t deny it’s like that, yet people can still talk to their parents as kids, spice exists and canned veggies or frozen ones can taste decent. All basic truths.
I helped my little brother cook, he started pretty terribly and to be encouraging everything was, well, not gonna be effective for him to learn. I always made it clear I admired his work but clearly put how cooking skill takes patience and dedication to do. He learned how hard it was for me to cook. I wish I learned to cook when I was a kid.
Oh well people here got whooshed on the real story I laid out.